Enabling law in Venezuela

{{Expand Spanish|topic=gov|Ley habilitante en Venezuela|date=February 2022}}

The Enabling law in Venezuela was created as article 203 of the 1999 constitution.{{cite web|title=Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela|url=http://venezuela.justia.com/federales/constitucion-de-la-republica-bolivariana-de-venezuela/titulo-v/capitulo-i/#articulo-203|website=Justia Venezuela|accessdate=19 July 2017}} Through this law, the National Assembly gives the president its main power - which is to pass laws, for a period of no more than 180 days. This period was later lengthened.«Hugo Chávez had a special law and three enabling laws and Maduro, two, and with them they created a tangle, a terrible legislative framework with which they have destroyed the country under legal guise» {{cite web |url=https://www.elnacional.com/opinion/columnista/crimen-con-las-leyes-habilitantes_213483/| title= El crimen con las leyes habilitantes|accessdate= 30 November 2017| publisher=El Nacional}} The current Enabling law has been granted to Hugo Chávez (2000, 2007, 2010){{cite web|url=http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/206868/esta-es-la-gaceta-oficial-donde-se-publico-la-primera-ley-habilitante-solicitada-en-1999-por-chavez/|title=Esta es la Gaceta Oficial donde se publicó la primera Ley Habilitante solicitada en 1999 por Chávez|website=Noticias 24 / Venezuela|date=November 14, 2013|accessdate=February 16, 2022|archive-date=November 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118084340/http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/206868/esta-es-la-gaceta-oficial-donde-se-publico-la-primera-ley-habilitante-solicitada-en-1999-por-chavez/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6277379.stm |website= BBC News |title= Rule by decree passed for Chavez |date= January 19, 2007|accessdate= February 16, 2022}} and to Nicolás Maduro (2013, 2015).{{cite web|url=http://www.el-nacional.com/politica/Carlos-Flores-Asamblea-Nacional-Habilitante_0_300570056.html |title=PSUV aprueba Ley Habilitante con voto de Carlos Flores |website=El Nacional|date= November 14, 2013|accessdate=February 16, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31899510 |title=Venezuela: President Maduro granted power to govern by decree |website=BBC News|date=March 16, 2015|accessdate=February 16, 2022}}